Re: Branches are Scary

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 13:49:39 +0600
> Cc: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>, i.lohmar@gmail.com, 
> 	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> >> > If you still plan substantial cleanup of your commits, just
> >> > do not push them yet.
> >>
> >> Makes it hard to get comments on them, I think.
> >
> > How's that?  Can you tell more details how getting comments requires
> > squashing?
> 
> Getting comments doesn’t. Acting on comments sort of does.
> 
> Sure, you can push a follow-up commit with a “Post-review fix”
> subject, but it makes history too detailed. Or you can squash fixes
> into the commits that introduced the respective issues.

I see, thanks for explaining.

So I think the too detailed history is not important for these
branches, since they eventually are going to be deleted.  Therefore,
my advice is just not to squash there.

Alternatively, one could push a new branch after each round of comment
adjudication, and have that new branch have all the changes squashed
into a single commit.  The previous branch would then be deleted.